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Topic: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

As many of you know I've built a few amps for Joe and as such I've been to many sound checks, heard his rig on stage and even played through it. I'm very familiar to how my ears hear it. Everyones ears are different so others may disagree with me.

Also as an owner of an amp company you have to troll through Youtube to see whats out there. People do clips. while on some occasions this can be a bit scary because you've no control on what goes out there, just sometimes you'll come across a clip that is a little bit special. This is such a clip to me because I've never heard anything that sounds so close to the on-stage sound of Joes rig from an observers standpoint.
The ironic this is this is just one 18W 2 channel amp (an OD2r to be precise)  through a 12L and recorded with the camera mic.

See what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eH__lF5 … re=related

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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

Carol-Ann_Amps wrote:

As many of you know I've built a few amps for Joe and as such I've been to many sound checks, heard his rig on stage and even played through it. I'm very familiar to how my ears hear it. Everyones ears are different so others may disagree with me.

Also as an owner of an amp company you have to troll through Youtube to see whats out there. People do clips. while on some occasions this can be a bit scary because you've no control on what goes out there, just sometimes you'll come across a clip that is a little bit special. This is such a clip to me because I've never heard anything that sounds so close to the on-stage sound of Joes rig from an observers standpoint.
The ironic this is this is just one 18W 2 channel amp (an OD2r to be precise)  through a 12L and recorded with the camera mic.

See what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eH__lF5 … re=related

Hi Alan
Very impressive but I am not surprised since it's a Carol Ann
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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

That's pretty much "the sound" ..very impressed.

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Very nice!

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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

what was the tech 21?

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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

Thats an 18w amp? Blimey! Impressive definition going on there!

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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

what was the tech 21?


This was an older OD2r that didn't have an efx loop so the guy took a low level  signal from an attenuator on the output of the CA  to the efx and used the Tech 21 as a 'transparent' amplifier to amplify the efx. A wet/dry rig. All the tones are from the CA. THis is a neat way to use a non-efx loop amp like an old Plexi with delay and reveb etc. This is what Eric Johnson does.

The same could have been done without the Tech 21 if it was a newer OD2r or OD3r with an efx loop.

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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

Carol-Ann_Amps wrote:
NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

what was the tech 21?


This was an older OD2r that didn't have an efx loop so the guy took a low level  signal from an attenuator on the output of the CA  to the efx and used the Tech 21 as a 'transparent' amplifier to amplify the efx. A wet/dry rig. All the tones are from the CA. THis is a neat way to use a non-efx loop amp like an old Plexi with delay and reveb etc. This is what Eric Johnson does.

The same could have been done without the Tech 21 if it was a newer OD2r or OD3r with an efx loop.

I want one now, that is beautiful sounding amplifier!

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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

I want I want I want!  Wow!  I wonder how that would sound through a 4x12 cabinet?

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squawken wrote:

I want I want I want!  Wow!  I wonder how that would sound through a 4x12 cabinet?

Like the God of thunder gargling nails!

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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

Sounds great. Not so sure I understand the attenuater part though.

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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

This thread has now gotten me dangerously interested in an OD3!

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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

wharris wrote:

This thread has now gotten me dangerously interested in an OD3!

OD3 is killer you can't go wrong with any of Alans gear.
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Re: JB Tones with 18W and 1 Amp ....it can be done !!

So the attenuator thing, Is is 1 output feeding the amp speaker as normal while the other feeds an attenuator lowering the signal to some pedals then fed into another amp? is that how it works?